Local train services on Sealdah division disrupted on Sunday

A Sealdah-bound local train was stalled for around 30 minutes at Madhyamgram station in North 24 Parganas district on Sunday afternoon because of ‘signal failure’, said railway officials.

Being a Sunday, the Bongaon-Sealdah Local that usually is packed with passengers from the northern fringes, was less crowded.

Railway officials said the magnitude of the impact of the signal failure would have been manifold had it happened on a weekday.

The train was static at the station between 12.30pm and 1pm after which the fault could be rectified.

Railway officials said the automated system that alerts the train movements approaching a station had apparently malfunctioned, forcing them to turn it into manual mode for sometime.